Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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75: Embedding Democracy (Catherine Bracy)
November 17th, 2013 | Season 2 | 31 mins 21 secs
This week Ben Orenstein interviews Catherine Bracy, Director of Community Organizing at Code for America.
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74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)
November 10th, 2013 | Season 2 | 32 mins 5 secs
Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby.
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73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)
November 3rd, 2013 | Season 2 | 33 mins 3 secs
Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim.
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72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)
October 27th, 2013 | Season 2 | 32 mins 39 secs
This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment.
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71: The Power of the Truth
October 20th, 2013 | Season 2 | 39 mins 53 secs
Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions.
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70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly
October 13th, 2013 | Season 2 | 40 mins 17 secs
Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent.
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69: Geocoding in the Now
October 6th, 2013 | Season 2 | 14 mins 50 secs
Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails.
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68: Simplicity and Elegance
September 29th, 2013 | Season 2 | 34 mins 10 secs
Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus.
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67: The Data Optimist
September 22nd, 2013 | Season 2 | 29 mins 41 secs
Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers.
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66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
September 15th, 2013 | Season 2 | 40 mins 18 secs
Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats.
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65: No! Videos Private!
September 8th, 2013 | Season 2 | 38 mins 25 secs
On this episode Ben talks with Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz about Wistia
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64: Wistfully Into the Air
September 1st, 2013 | Season 2 | 36 mins 18 secs
In this episode of Giant Robots Ben talks with Des Traynor about intercom, concise communication. blogging and customer outreach.
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63: Knowledge Bomb!
August 25th, 2013 | Season 2 | 48 mins 37 secs
Ben and Chad discuss mentoring, job hunting tips and FAQ
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62: Family Business
August 18th, 2013 | Season 2 | 31 mins 39 secs
In this of episode of Giant Robots, Ben speaks with Natalie Nagele and Ilya Sabanin about Wildbit, Beanstalk, and work flow.
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61: Having the Craic with Paul
August 11th, 2013 | Season 2 | 34 mins 56 secs
In this episode Paul and Ben talk about tito, funconf, and organizing conferences.
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60: Deep Dive
August 4th, 2013 | Season 2 | 34 mins 1 sec
In this week's episode Ben discusses effective business practices and advice for optimal page design with special guest Patrick McKenzie.